Maine Aurora Borealis Watch - Lizzie Dickerson: The Diary of a Maine Space Traveler

Unfortunately, rain, clouds, and big moon are all on the agenda for Maine over the next few days. But, if you go to the SWPC website, this is what you will see. We haven’t had a big storm like this for a while, but, we probably won’t get to see much. Here’s the link to […]

November 2

November 2, 2025

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| 7:25 pm

Good evening and welcome to the MABW weather desk. Current conditions are not great for aurora viewing, both due to poor alignment of the IMF and also the 90% moon. There is a smallish substorm in progress, but, with the moon, I don’t think we will have much chance. The main news is that we […]

November 1

November 1, 2025

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| 6:19 pm

Good evening and welcome to the MABW evening forecast. There is an active substorm, but, it doesn’t look like it’s going to go above yellow alert status, and it might fizzle out early. Current conditions: I’ve been seeing Bz headed down to 0 and -1, so really not a whole lot going on just now. […]

Storm watch issued by NOAA

October 14, 2025

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| 7:52 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast. The new universal day will be upon us in another 25 minutes, that wonderful time I used to call DISCOVR rollover, when the satellite feed updated and All Was Known. Well, in that hour, anyway. What we do know is that it’s cloudy. We also know […]

Watch This Space.

October 13, 2025

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| 9:28 pm

This is what a solar synoptic map looks like. They are updated every three hours at SWPC, and give us all the information we need to know about Coronal Holes. Here is one such coronal hole, which should be geo-effective until about the 20th or so. It’s a bit bigger than the last trip around- […]

00:29 UTC October 14, 2025

October 13, 2025

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| 8:29 pm

Solar Wind Speed: 664 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 4 nT, Bz 0 nT

I’m making myself write this post.

October 13, 2025

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| 8:27 pm

Edited to correct the website address for weather.gov Good evening and welcome to a rather non-forecast, due to clouds. Last night was clouds most places, too, though activity was high. A couple people got lucky when a break in the clouds appeared up north, and conditions were right. Luck of the draw. I generally don’t […]

Current Conditions

September 30, 2025

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| 7:26 pm

Solar Wind Speed: 679 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 10 nT, Bz -5 nT

Why SWFO-L1 Matters

September 27, 2025

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| 5:11 am

This is another must read for aurora folks, because you will learn everything you need to know about the lives of the US satellites that have been bringing us space weather, have died in the line of service (RIP DISCOVR) and are about to be online. This is the main takeaway information you are about […]

Flare or CME? Geomagnetic Storm or Blackout?

September 20, 2025

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| 11:52 pm

We’ve had a few questions about NOAA scales for various solar burps. Particularly- “What is an M Class Flare?” What does this mean? There is a jazz tune called “Solar Flare,” and for the life of me, I can’t remember who wrote it, but I used to go along to Monday night jazz in my […]